good to have you back with us here on "new day." questions being raised about the stability of the middle east. michael weiss is here, co-author "isis: inside the army of terror," of course, a cnn contributor and editor inside the daily beast. pointing to the fact that he believes it's going to take effort from inside syria and iraq to do this. do you agree with his assessment and solutions? >> yes, i do. the problem is, all the efforts we poured into both those countries seem to be failing or at least not meeting the objectives the president set out a year ago. let's take syria. the pentagon had a program name train and equip. the program is now defunct.